Natalie makes some excellent points in her post Women in technology and Ubuntu, “Another great barrier to entry is a partner with similar interests in the field, naturally a common occurrence due to similar social circles and shared interests, it can happen many people overlook the female partner’s geeky credentials, unintentionally perhaps but noticeable none … Geeks who happen to also be women
A client just sent me a link to the API documentation for something we will be integrating with. The pages that contain the documentation are using JavaScript to scroll the page title! What were they thinking? Ploughing through documentation is bad enough but far worse when there is a scrolling thing constantly in view. Gah! … The most irritating thing in the world?
Posting this mainly for the benefit of any other freelances who are trying to find out information about what to do regarding unpaid invoices following Highbury House going into receivership on January 20th. Rob Buckley has been doing some excellent detective work and has information about the sale of various titles as well as contact … Highbury House receivership
The lovely Bruce Lawson has tagged me with what might be the first ever meme-thingy I’ve completed. Four jobs I’ve had in my life Shop assistant (working in the high class footwear establishment that is Shoe Fayre) Dancer Silver service waitress Stage crew in London’s West End working on Jolson! and The Mousetrap I’ve gone … Four Things
Due to the lurgy descending on our household, it not being particularly easy to find anywhere fun to go on New Years Eve with a small party person in tow, and us not really being that fussed we spent New Years Eve helping the Small Person to build an internal combustion engine from a kit … Happy New Year!
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Not only does Dustin Diaz know how to cut up a pineapple, he also understands CSS Shorthand, and has produced this handy guide to the CSS Shorthand property values, which is a great reference to something not often thoroughly discussed.
As title! The Small Person loves the slimy fruits, and I spent ten minutes this morning trying to chop the fruit off the stone without reducing the whole thing to mush. There must be a technique to this.
I discovered the Steenbergs Organic Pepper and Spice website a while ago, and remembered them while pulling everything out of the cupboards looking for the garam masala I was sure I had another jar of, earlier this week. I love cooking and have been rattling through the spices recently cooking lots of Indian food, and … … and all things nice
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